I haven't noticed any ABL but I use only 40% brightness in SDR.
ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM
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I haven't noticed any ABL but I use only 40% brightness in SDR.
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Is it that bright you had to lower it??
I usually use pretty low brightness on my monitor. I think tftcentral said that 44% is 120 nits.
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Ah yes, that's about right nits.
Funny thing is, no one is buying the LG uw OLED version lol. They even lowered the price to €1729.
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Yup, $1499 in the States too (LG site). They'll have to drop a lot more off of it if they want to sell any quantity!
Been UK stock for at least 2 weeks.
edit - 5120x2160 version coming in 2025 has piqued my interest, albeit 'only' 165Hz.
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I forgot that even exists. I don't really care about ultrawide anyway.
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Make it €/£199 and we talk lol. But I'm lying
100% of my use cases doesn't work with ultrawides. It's funny to see they dropped the price that soon. Hopefully this will wake up Scamsung but I doubt it. However, once I tried the LG 27GR95QE, I don't even want QD-OLED.
There's black crush, or rather limited shadow detail in SDR mode and those Lagom tests are a reasonable example of where it's hard to make out some of the near black shades properly. There's no easy way to correct this either without a calibration device, even with settings like the shadow detail control that Asus provide which is a shame.
This is a problem on most OLED screens though tbh, although on some like the LG 27GR95QE you could improve things quite nicely with some tweaks to shadow detail setting (or via calibration). The Corsair Flex was another example where near black detail was poor (more so than this Asus screen) as the gamma was also offer in darker shades.
For this Asus screen I don't think it's the kind of thing though that would cause many real world problems, unless you're super sensitive or work with loads of dark content or play loads of very dark games. A lot has been made of Vincent's comment about it, but realistically it's not the kind of thing that should cause any major problems. Vincent was actually talking about HDR shadow detail though as it was related to the tracking of the PQ curve in HDR mode (for HDR content) where it was a little darker than intended for darker shades. But if you test HDR mode with black level tests, including that lagom test, you can see HDR mode is better than SDR in that regard, and imo not a problem in any big way at all.
Note also that the same thing can be said for near black detail on all LCD panels - especially since black is not black on those
not something to get hung up on at all with this Asus screenAlso here's some recent investigation and testing of HDR mode, and the changes with the newer firmware - also calling out some confusion with the FW to be wary of!
tftcentral.co.uk
Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM HDR Performance Investigation and Firmware Confusion - TFTCentral
Are there problems with HDR colours on the Asus PG27AQDM OLED display, and what was changed or improved with the new firmware?
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Really nice write-upAlso here's some recent investigation and testing of HDR mode, and the changes with the newer firmware - also calling out some confusion with the FW to be wary of!
Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM HDR Performance Investigation and Firmware Confusion - TFTCentral
Are there problems with HDR colours on the Asus PG27AQDM OLED display, and what was changed or improved with the new firmware?
I wondered about this sentence though:
"But for those who follow this trend and just leave HDR disabled all the time, the desktop didn’t look right at all and colours looked off."
Should it not have been like this
"But for those who follow this trend and just leave HDR enabled all the time, the desktop didn’t look right at all and colours looked off."
You’re right, typo! Corrected now
The TFTCentral review is now available for everyone!
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Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM Review - TFTCentral
The new 27" 1440p OLED monitor from Asus with 240Hz refresh rate, a custom heatsink and 1000 nits HDR brightness
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I've just had a Correction and clarification from Asus for our ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM review. There is NO integrated fan on this model, it's been replaced by the heatsink for passive cooling. I've updated that section about the fan, as well as the OLED care section relating to the heatsink capabilities
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Mines has had to go back for a refund. After about 1/2 hours over several days use the screen has failed. Think I am going to pickup the LG version as the ASUS stock now is non existent.
When you say failed are you referring to the uniformity issues?
If so did you try and run the pixel refresh/clean?
That tends to clear it up in most cases.
I appreciate it’s gone back now but just curious what the issue was.
Also with regards to stock it seems all 27inch 240hz oled are like gold dust at the minute….
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Nah, have seen stonk of the LG version this very morning...
Yeah it was uniformity and the colours were off, for the first few days the monitor was perfect. Then turned it on last night and the following was shown, tried plugging in a different device to check it wasn't my pc but same thing.
The first image the screen is meant to be white.
Pixel cleaning done nothing unfortunately. The monitor also seems to have burn in, the cod hud was burned in even after pixel cleaning must have had about 6 hours max at most in the game.
Must have just got a bad panel, would have got a replacement as was blown away with it until yesterday but cant be without a monitor till stock arrives. Just hoping the LG brightness isn't too dull.
I managed to order one this am, hoping it's better outcome than this one. Just hoping the LG brightness isn't too dull. If not will wait for the corsair one.
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This is amazing. Thanks so much for clarifying this once and for all!
Now I just need it to be in stock in my country
